I still have a letter I received from Prince Leonard 35 years ago when I was planning a trip there. It was my student days, and sadly I ran out of money before I got there. I’m glad to see that the principality is still going strong, even though it’s not recognised by Australia. In this modern age, recognition by the internets counts for more than recognition by gov anyway!

@landonsyn
I suspect, depending on the model, that some of these schemes are in developers parlance, “planned unit developments’. the promoters make money by solving their customers problems, if you were able to solve someones accommodation problems, bundled with solving other problems ( taxation, regulation, education, to name a few, ) you ought to be able to charge for it.
I’m hoping to participate or launch one of these in my declining years.
In every ” ,planned ubit development” i’ve seen, the developer- promoter promulgates rules to fit his or her needs, and his or her perceptions of the market wants. Thats why we need a thousand, so that customers will have options , and we will learn by the relative success and failure of many approaches.

@rrule In your ‘declining years’?! This might be your best endeavor yet! Your swan song, your legacy. You are describing the new kind of human-environmental entrepreneurship outlined by Spencer MacCallum in the “Enterprise of Community”. http://explorersfoundation.org/glyphery/280.html

@landonsyn
I’m keeping my cards close to the vest right now.
I suspect that if we experience another global liquidity crisis, that the most affected societies will be the marginal frontier societies. I also suspect that a group might be able to buy a substantial quantity of sovereign bonds at an extraordinary discount t par, and exchange them for fee simple real estate, and limited sovereignty.
If I were to succeed, it would not make a dent in the world’s problems, but it might offer a partial solution to a few hundred families, whose visions were compatible with my own. And it would be an interesting social laboratory, at no cost to society.

@rrule Although many have imagined developing liberty spaces on empty land, the biggest opportunities & social gains may be in re-configuring existing, populated urban spaces where the state has no capacity to provide basic services or infrastructure.

@landonsyn
Free societies
I don’t disagree, but that opportunity is not as geared to my preferences or skill sets. I encourage others to try, freedom is a huge market, and there is more than enough room for all of us